Monday, January 31, 2011

Shut Up!

It all started with a restaurant review. A blogger in Kuwait visited the new Benihana and posted about his experience. Apparently, the folks at Benihana didn’t like the review and thought they would sue the blogger.

Welcome to our digital world, Benihana. Hopefully your legal team will advise you to stop this silliness. This is one day into your adventure and already the combined readership of all of these blogs, media and twitter are too many to even estimate. This is certainly not the kind of publicity that you were hoping for. Cease and desist, make a peace offering and get back to doing what you do and we will too.

Lebanese are being bombarded in the form of outdoor advertising. Billboards fight for attention. While many cities have beautification and restoration committees, Beirut counts on the creativity of advertisers to add a bit of color and at least temporarily add beauty to crumbling buildings.Here are some of what Lebanese are subjected to on a daily basis. Enjoy or suffer along with us.